En s’appuyant sur le cas de la croissance économique chinoise, cet article s’interroge sur les implications des évolutions dans les modes d’usage de l’espace, dans un contexte de transformation structurelle. Il soutient que le changement d’affectation des sols est un aspect...

In this paper we discuss forestry issues related to land reform in Bolivia. We find that although the current land reform satisfies most of the conditions that are necessary for adequately addressing development issues in the agrarian sector, it does not deal with many of the challenges related...

In Part I, we consider an interesting problem with many applications. The canonical problem may be stated as follows: in an Euclidean space Rk , n independent observations uniformly distributed in an unknown compact set S are available. We need to estimate the set S . The work is divided into...

In this paper, we analyse the impact of tenancy reform in the Indian state of West Bengal on consumption expenditure of tenants. We use a difference-in-difference methodology with data from a household survey (the National Sample Survey) to compare the growth of consumption expenditure of...